The Council of Canadians says TransCanada’s proposed Energy East tar sands pipeline is “a ticking bomb that threatens Canada’s precious waterways.” The post Where Oil Meets Water: Energy East an…
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Amanda Connelly reports on the Alberta Federation of Labour’s latest revelations as to how the temporary foreign worker program has been used to…
Assorted content to end your week. – Glen McGregor reports on Michael Sona’s conviction as part of the Cons’ voter suppression in 2011. But both Michael den Tandt and Sujata…
by: Obert Madondo Follow @Obiemad | Published Wed, Aug 13, 2014 2012 PowerShift protest in Ottawa. (Photo: OBERT MADONDO/The Canadian Progressive) In 2012, I complained that Prime Minister Stephen Harper…
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Jack Peat argues for trickle-up economics to ensure that everybody shares in our common resources (while also encouraging economic development): Good capitalism…
by: Obert Madondo Follow @Obiemad | Published Mon, Aug 11, 2014 Keystone Pipeline Handout A new study strongly suggests that U.S. State Department grossly underestimated the negative environmental impact of…
by: Obert Madondo Follow @Obiemad | Published Sun. Aug 10, 2014 Protesters occupying Enbridge’s Line 9 pipeline construction site in Ontario on Aug 4, 2014. (Photo: Dam Line 9/Tumblr) Five…
Assorted content to end your week. – Jenna Smialiek reports on Gabriel Zucman’s conclusion that the .1% has managed to prevent the rest of us from even approaching reasonable estimates…
Here, on the need to take downside risks into account in discussing industrial development – especially when our water, land and lives are at stake. For further reading…– The CP…
On Tuesday, peaceful “Dam Line 9” activists occupying an Enbridge Line 9 pipeline construction site in southwestern Ontario defied a police deadline to leave. The post Activists Refuse to Leave…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Robert Reich muses about how our economy would look if we actually paid people based on their contribution to society rather than their…
The Delaware City Refining Company doesn’t just refine oil, it refines bitumen from the Tar Sands. The company, however, is intensely aware of the dangers of climate change, so much…
In Ontario, peaceful activists have stopped construction work on an Enbridge Line 9 pipeline site, arguing that Line 9 posed “a danger to people, animals, land, and water.” The post…
In a strongly worded letter, Lower Nicola Indian Band Chief Aaron L. Sam blasts Stephen Harper for pushing Kinder Morgan’s $5.4-billion oil pipeline, ignoring climate change. The post Harper blasted…
A fracking drill near Dawson Creek in northeast BC (courtesy of Two Island Films) Read this July 24 Globe and Mail story by Andrea Woo on a new study which…
Read this June 25th story by Wendy J. Palen, Thomas D. Sisk, Maureen E. Ryan, Joseph L. Árvai, Mark Jaccard, Anne K. Salomon, Thomas Homer-Dixon& Ken P. Lertzman in Nature…
This is an expansion of my last piece on the tar sands. The expanded form was republished as a Bullet at Socialist Project. I’ve decided to post the new bits…
The Council of Canadians this week told TransCanada to “cease and desist” from the deplorable practice of purchasing the silence of Canadian towns likely to be affected by the Energy…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Marc Lee looks in detail at the risks involved in relying on tar sands development as an economic model: The UK outfit…
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Paul Boothe responds to the C.D. Howe Institute’s unwarranted bias against public-sector investment: Is the public sector holding back provincial growth rates…
